Good People,
After Uhuru's stronghold vote count ending at 41% IEBC Chairman Mr. Hassan says and accepted that, there was a technical computer hitch which slowed the streaming live of results causing the delay from tallying centre's in the Counties. Without the backing-up, this statement cannot be verified, cannot be trusted as it is insufficient and is unbelievable.
After claims about Safaricom meandering with the network, the claims that KBLC Kenya Breweries Company held hostage their personnel voter IDs cards and hooding them with an aim to rig election to favor a candidate is illegal and unconstitutional; the police picking two ballot boxes on the road side with police shootings including mysterious deaths across the country indicate something is not right.
As a matter of concern, IEBC staff caught red handedly stealing and altering votes, police institution not overhauled, failing the "Electoral Voter Education" to make informed choices, discriminatively registering and allowing Diaspora to vote and selectively blocking others, Kimemia irregularly being allowed a free hand against the New constitution to form a tribal leadership team for Transitional Caretaker Committee and Kimemia hurriedly forming County Administration two days before election, candidates not going through proper and credible threshold of Integrity examination thus Presidential candidates were issued with faked clean bill of records which led to party primaries engulfed in conflict of interest with serious rigging anomalies and the corrupt were then issued with certificates against people's will; if all these schemes were not a pre-plan agreement between Uhuru and Raila to promote old constitution corruption and falsify, fail and flaw Integrity of the Reformed Accord for New Constitution, what urgent action or investigation was instituted by IEBC to ascertain the identified anomalies were fixed or corrected before proceeding with a peaceful, credible, free and fair election?
These concerns throw Hassan in bad light and our opinion is formed in the consequence that Mr. Hassan the chairman of IEBC played Kenyans a big fool in a web of compromising where he is accused of allowing anomalies to fizzle in the electioneering process and is suspected to have engaged in serious collaboration of conspiracy to push Kenya into a dangerous state of anxiety mode of Civil conflict by creating and allowing a fluid corrupt environment to thrive through obvious flaws and anomalies where he allowed corruption to fashion the election in favor of one tribe pitying the Kikuyus against the 42 tribes and this cannot be taken lightly as it is unacceptable as follows:
Ø The Chairman of IEBC Mr. Hassan, purposefully and knowingly looked the other way as his staff at IEBC were rigging and falsifying votes on behalf of Uhuru and therefore did not question, when some personnel were caught in camera stealing votes for Uhuru's count and this is wrong. Ø Diasporas discriminative biasness and blockage to fully participate in the election is flawed and is considered unconstitutional. An instance where on election day, Ochuodho was stopped from voting after being cleared as a candidate. This is a terrible thing to have happened, election process is therefore flawed as it is unacceptable. Ø Hassan did not value the fact that Kenya is made up of 43 tribes and that he ought to have played a credible and fair game by supervising and making sure that after Kimemia flawed in ways and means with complaints which were made very clear by media and the people, where IEBC should not have allowed Kimemia to participate in the process of electioneering and giving him free ride to go on with his dirty tricks pitching to rig. Also, he should not have been allowed to do transitioning against the New constitutional policy framework where, in a gang from one tribe, he sent personnel from Kikuyu tribe to own and take control of all Counties one day before election. This is assumed as a pre-plan conspiracy to stage-manage rigging of election, reason why machine got stalled at 41% and where votes for Uhuru did not match the registered voters which caused bottleneck to tally or balance as he keeps getting build up votes that cannot be verified or provide substantive evidence to prove the same and therefore, it is unacceptable. Ø There were stage-managed strategic Police shooting and killings elsewhere in the Country and in Garissa where 6 police officers were ambushed and killed the first day of election and this I believe was on purpose to cause alarm and fears on voter turn-out. My opinion is informed from purposefully refusal of Kibaki and team to reform and overhaul the police before elections and taking advantage of Kimemia's tribal group of transitioning against the constitution Ø Voter education to create informed awareness and community for Counties' preparedness to vote did not take place as per Reform Accord requirement allowing Kimemia's Administration to take advantage of the same; defeated the credibility for integrity to provide fairness of election is a complete flaw that should not have been allowed in the first place Ø Voting IDs that were bought in advance explain the situation why Kimemia sent his transitioning agents one day before election (masquerading as Administration personnel) to stuff the bought IDs into the respective County's voting ballot boxes across the country to boost Uhuru's votes Ø The buying of voter IDs cost Uhuru a lot of money which is why he ordered a ban "No Unprocessed Milk sale in the Country" through Kibaki so that, Brookside milk should sell for him to recover his campaign bribery money he spent and this too is unacceptable Ø Voter registration was discriminative and equally flawed in many areas of the country and it is believed it was done to favor special interest
Under these engineering and doctored circumstances, including threats on CJ Willy Mutunga where a pre-emptive preposition that Mutunga's junior is capable to precide on enthroning the President elect, and asking Raila if he will concede defeat is suspicious.
I then begun to received flowing questioning from the public as follows:
If CJ Willy Mutunga's intimidation is tools formed to put in place and frustrate justice, how shall we justify integrity of the Judiciary when it has been threatened and made dysfunctional? The credit goes to corruption greesing old constitution. This calls for concern where those whose rights are about to be stolen from are thrown out of balance and the Reform Change for the New Constitution is in danger of collapse.
What will happen for Kenyans with all the anomalies witnessed, will Kenya be safe to redeem their stolen votes and loses through courts? Will that be done after Uhuru has been made President? Is there something we don't know that we should be told about??? Why is the pre-emptiveness displayed ??? Does this not explain there were pre-emptive plan to make Uhuru win??? Is something cooking we need to know ??? Are there hands of the corrupt special interest playing politics on livelihood and survival of the poor 42 tribes of Kenya??? Are the 42 tribes of Kenya on the list to be wiped out or are they being driven to slaughter houses so Land Grabbing to be owned by a few is a free ride??? Under the prevailing condition, will the court of Kenya function if help does not come handy from friends and sympathizers and before Kenya is destroyed by the selfish and greedy special interest???
99% of Kenyans are rolling these difficult questions in their minds and the same has remained unanswered. IEBC Chair Mr. Hassan, Uhuru, Raila and Kimemia should not put fire on the bottom of people of Kenya and expect people to sit pretty. These are human being with brains that are thinking very hard. Something definitely is not right…….and yes, People have a right to question and they must demand for their rights. Before anything happens, Hassan, Uhuru, Raila and Kimemia must vacate public office immediately right now………..!!!!!
A Credible Way Forward that shall bring peaceful, free and fair election: We demand for an urgent formation of a Credible Transitional Caretaker Committee who will formalize overhaul of Police Administration, form an Independent credible team of Electoral Board, engage the community to form a devolved County establishment, put together a reliable and sustainable Finance Ministry structural establishment capable to hold the country together as per the Reform Accord Agenda of the New Constitution, offer Voter Education so people are able to engage in informed choices of candidates who are able to deliver public services according to Reform Change policy without conflicts of interest.
Kenya is not one community's affair, it is not a Kikuyu colony. Kenya belongs to 43 tribes and it is just right that all tribes are treaty mutually with respect and dignity. We therefore ask for fairness. At this present time, this engineered conspiracy has failed miserably and the election result has proved our fears of loosing the Reform Change Agreement for the New Constitution.
The elections cannot be said to be credible, free and fair when the Kikuyu's interest as a tribe is favored and fashioned to triumph against the 42 tribes of Kenya irregularly. This is discrimination of the highest order. We all have eyes and we can see this engineering going bad, causing ripples and dividing the country the wrong way and as a result is about to divide people along tribal lines for which we shall not keep quiet.
Right thinking beings who care for peace and wish to defeat corruption must not allow this to happen. It is an instigative cooked plan to frustrate, build anger and animosity, divide Kenyans amongst tribal groupings a thing which cannot help the country to move forward progressively. The rest of the 43 tribes are soon made slaves of one tribe. Facts are clearly lying bare on the table and it is wrong. It is robbery with violence. The People of Kenya will not accept to be fooled or forced and pushed too far against their wishes by special interest, it is bound to explode negatively and have a very bad repercussions. It is for this reason that IEBC Chairman Mr. Hassan and Kimemia has failed Kenya to a point they are about to through Kenya into serious civil war on purpose simply just to favor special interest; a situation that will not be acceptable.
The people of Kenya must remain peaceful but must stand firm and demand for their rights and reject the outcome which IEBC Mr. Hassan is about to push down the throat of Kenyans. It is unacceptable………
What we have witnessed is just a mockery of Kenya's intelligence.
Let the truth be told…….. Kenyans are very good people and they have proved that they are peaceful, that they are able to behave maturely in a civilized manner but the greedy selfish special interest with twisted corrupt minds should not take this as a sign of weakness and therefore, Kenyans should not be pushed to the wall. We are all humans with feelings and we all deserve respect. This matter should be taken and treated with the urgency it deserves………
Mr. Hassan, Uhuru, Raila and Kimemia must disqualify themselves or be stopped immediately and urgently before they do more harm to Kenya.
Enough is enough…………We are sick and tired of living under bondage of historic injustices time and again………No one can drain water from dry stones, we need to live a life full of meaning and this is why we struggle for the Reform Change………
Playing Kenyans a fool is making things worse; so, let the truth give light on our path and play fair to all……….sitting pretty and fire is burning our bottom will not do…….(hatakama ni nani, huwezi vumilia matako ikiungua) It is why God gave us the brains that under unity for common good, we collaborate at peace loving one another, living in happiness and sharing in God's blessings making the world better than we found it…. !!! If you love, you shall not be greedy or selfish and you will do no harm or plan evil on others………… This is the life we all want……..
Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com IEBC disputes division claims among commissionersSHARE THIS STORYUpdated 2 hrs 16 mins ago BY VITALIS KIMUTAI and PETER OPIYO Nairobi, Kenya: The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ( IEBC) disputed claims of division among its members as well as allegations that they were under pressure to declare a certain presidential candidate the winner. Owing to the delay in relaying presidential results rumors had been rife that the management of the process had caused a rift among the nine Commissioners. There is no division within the commission , the commissioners and the management are all working as a team. There are no forces pushing us to declare results of presidential candidate. We donât know the results and we donât know how they (results) would turn up to be, said Hassan. There had been claims by Jubilee Alliance that the Commission was under pressure from foreign missions to declare a preferred candidate as the winner. He also denied claims by CORD coalition that some of the results were doctored. CORD wants the tallying process be stopped based on these allegations but IEBC said tallying cannot be stopped as it is a legal process. âWe canât stop tallying, this is a legal practice and we have already declared winners like Senators, MPs, Women representatives and governors. This is the final leg of the process, said Hassan He also denied claims that the electronic system used to relay election results had been hacked into and clarified that with the rigorous verification process in the manual system which was adopted after the electronic one failed, there was no room for anyone to doctor the results. Hassan however, admitted that the software used by IEBC to transmit the tallied votes at the various polling stations in the 290 constituencies had a myriad of challenges that rendered the main server non-functional. Contrary to speculations and rumors, we do not believe the system was hacked into as the installed multiple-layered security systems did not indicate that, Hassan pointed out. There were also concerns about the spoilt votes that reduced dramatically after IEBC adopted the manual system, and Hassan said there was a database server error that multiplied the rejected votes by eight. The rejected votes stood at over 320,000 when cast votes stood at more than 4 million when the system failed. By the time of going to press the rejected votes were now 58,409 out of the 6,031,500 votes cast. The chairman also revealed that as the Returning Officer for the Presidential contest, all complaints on the presidential poll should be directed to him. IEBC would like to clarify that the chairman is the returning officer for the presidential election and any disputes should addressed directly to him for quick decision making, Hassan stated. He said the delay in releasing the tallied Presidential votes was as a result of the rigorous manual verification process it was subjected to, in order to ensure it reflected the true picture on the ground. Once the votes have been counted and tallied, they are signed off by all agents present and a copy of the same posted on the door of the polling station. The results are then forwarded to the constituency tallying center for tallying and official declaration by the constituency Returning officer, He stated. It is after the results are tallied that the Returning Officer then travels to Nairobi to hand deliver the results to the commission for verification and declaration. Hassan added, âWe have eight verification teams comprising of senior IEBC officials who receive, audits and authenticates the results from the polling stations before they are declared, Hassan stated. The IEBC Commissioners and officers, he said, were impartial arbiters in the election as they had taken office to serve without favor or ill-will. juma7 March 2013 1:11 AM IEBC should propose the government Civil Service body to Employ qualified Telecommunication Engineers to work permanently work with the body. Because external Engineers will always run away from the failures. most engineers are craft they understand the international law on ICT contracts which the employers are not aware of its existence. again there is different measures of perfomance of ICT contract: coverage in terms of space and time, Quality of service which the company has not mentioned that it provided is very important and this was the major problem because the presiding officers are acknowledging the network coverage fact but poor quality of service which included dropped communications links, and priority management for IEBC data in the communication qeue traffic, which needed a higher priority compared to public, this could have led to public experiencing poor service at expense of IEBC and i dont think safaricom were ready for this. finally the manager safcom has not mentioned the communication capacity for allotment it provided for IEBC which is a key factor also. IEBC blames database bug for rejected votes error Isaack Hassan (2ndR), chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), addresses a press conference at the Bomas of Kenya national tallying centre. By ALPHONCE SHIUNDU ashiundu@ke.nationmedia.com Posted Thursday, March 7 2013 at 19:19 The chairman of Kenya's electoral commission Issack Hassan has attributed the big reduction of rejected votes in the on-going manual tallying process to a bug in the commission's database. Addressing a news conference at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi on Thursday evening, Mr Hassan said a bug in their database kept on multiplying the rejected votes by a factor of eight. The database was developed in-house by the Independent Boundaries and Electoral Commission. Mr Hassan said the programming error was as a result of a conflict between the IEBC server and the database. "There was an error in the way the programme was written… For any rejected vote for any candidate, they were being multiplied by eight," said the IEBC chairman. As at 6.30pm last night, the IEBC had counted 6,031,500 votes, and the tally of rejected votes was at 58,409. When the results were being transmitted electronically from the polling stations, the database had recorded 338,592 rejected votes out of a total of 5,653,852 votes cast. The high number of rejected votes –which kept rising as the counting continued—made political parties jittery about their possible impact on the final tally of votes. For a candidate to be declared a president, they must have more than half of all the votes cast in an election and at least 25 per cent in more than half of the 47 counties in the country. By 6:30 pm Thusrday, the IEBC had officially announced results from 132 constituencies. Jubilee's Uhuru Kenyatta was in the lead with 3,134,654 votes, Mr Raila Odinga of the Coalition for Reform and Democracy had 2,563,286, Musalia Mudavadi had 174,348, Peter Kenneth 34,409, Martha Karua 19,945, James ole Kiyiapi 19,365, Mohammed Dida 16,536 and Paul Muite 6,705. The high number of the rejected votes had made the IEBC promise to do an audit on the cause of the spectacle. Some of the observers at the Bomas of Kenya had attributed the high number of rejected votes to an uneducated electorate, given that they were supposed to vote for six elective positions, with numerous candidates. There are also those who said the colour-coding of the ballot boxes and ballot papers had had an effect in the rejection of votes. Police probe ballot papers dumped on roadsideSHARE THIS STORYUpdated Thursday, March 07 2013 at 02:00 GMT+3 By Standard Reporter NAIROBI , KENYA: Police and electoral officials are investigating the discovery of 12 used ballot papers that were found dumped on the roadside in Ruai area, Nairobi. The papers, marked as spoilt votes, were found yesterday and belong to various candidates for positions of senator, Members of Parliament and Women Representative. Kayole police boss Samuel Mukinda said they were called and informed of the discovery before they moved there to collect them. âPreliminary findings show the papers are genuine but we do not know how they found their way here,â said Mukinda. EABL workers fail to vote, their IDs mysteriously missingSHARE THIS STORYUpdated Monday, March 04 2013 at 16:24 GMT+3 By Cyrus Ombati Nairobi, Kenya: Eighteen workers of East African Breweries, Nairobi failed to vote Monday after their Identification Documents mysteriously went missing from the main sentry of the factory. The workers had reported their duties in Ruaraka based factory on Sunday evening and left the IDs at the reception area. However when they were leaving Monday morning ready for the exercise they realised their IDs were missing out of tens of others. They reported the matter to Kasarani police station in Nairobi and police moved in and arrested four guards who were on duty. Nairobi Area police boss Ben Kibue said the four guards were on duty when the documents went missing. "The workers realised the documents were missing when they were signing out of the factory and we are investigating to know what happened," said Kibue. He said the affected workers told them they planned to vote in the exercise but they did not do so because the documents were missing. Kibue said part of their investigations will spread to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission where they will seek to know if the documents were used to vote. "If the IDs were used it will be a serious issue because it means there is a lot fraud.' Kasarani head of CID Valerian Obore said the four guards are expected in court this morning to face various charges. Obore said they are interrogating the guards to know the whereabouts of the documents. He added the factory management is co-operating well with investigations. "Some of the victims say they are ashamed going home without the ink on the finger to indicate one has voted," said police. A senior manager at the factory said they are taking the issue serious and were also investigating it. Authorities had asked employers to release their employees to be able to vote in the exercise. Change of Guard at EABL as earnings dip.SHARE THIS STORYUpdated Friday, February 22 2013 at 13:33 GMT+3 By James Anyanzwa Nairobi, Kenya: Mr. Devlin Hainsworth, the Group managing director of the East African Breweries Ltd ( EABL) has resigned after serving for only eight (8) months at the regional brewer. He is replaced by Charles Ireland who is planned to assume office on April 1. Mr. Hainsworth's resignation comes just a week after the beer maker announced a sharp drop in profitability for the half-year period ended December 31. In a circular to the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) dated February 22, EABL Chairman Charles Muchene said Hainsworth, who has been employed with Diageo for a period of 14 years, would be leaving the business to pursue other interests, effective March 31. Prior to his latest appointment Mr. Ireland was the managing director of Guinness Anchor Berhad (GAB) in Malaysia, a highly successful joint venture between Diageo plc and Asia Pacific Breweries. GAB is Malaysia's 3rd largest consumer goods business and is listed on the Malaysian stock exchange with a market capitalization of over I billion sterling pounds. Ireland joined Diageo in 1997 after working for Nestle in Great Britain for 10 years. " The chairman and the Board of EABL wish to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Devlin Hainsworth for his contribution to the business and to warmly welcome Mr. Charles Ireland to the business and to East Africa," said Muchene. EABL's half-year pre-tax profit plummeted 13 per cent to Sh5.8 billion on the back of rising finance and operational costs, which more than tripled. However, volumes and revenues grew across most regions, driven by a mixture of brand development and improved route to market. The company, controlled by Britain's Diageo Plc, borrowed Sh 19 billion from its parent to buy the 20 percent of its subsidiary Kenya Breweries which was owned by SABMiller's Tanzania Breweries. Consequently EABL's financing costs increased by 221 per cent to Sh2.1 billion in the first half of 2012 from Sh642 million in the period June to December 2011. "Despite a softening consumer economy in Uganda and a Duty rise that slowed the beverage alcohol market in Tanzania, we managed to deliver good results driven by our total beer portfolio that grew revenue by 11 per cent while spirits grew by nine per cent across the region," Hainsworth told an investor briefing in Nairobi. Cost of sales rose by 13 percent to Sh 16.2 billion, outpacing the growth in revenue mainly due to investments in the company's distribution network and higher input costs such as the price of buying malt. Growth in sales was registered across all the markets although sales of low-cost spirits declined in Kenya, the firm's largest market, and slower economic growth in Uganda weakened consumer demand there, leading to growth of only 3 percent. In addition the financial performance in Uganda was affected by plant investments, the company said. All the other markets of Kenya, Tanzania and exports to countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan produced double-digit percentage rises in sales. Hainsworth said he was particularly confident over the outlook for revenue growth due to sales of new brands in Kenya and Tanzania and generally rising demand in Tanzania. The firm introduced new brands like Jebel spirit and Balozi beer in Kenya last year and revived the Kibo beer brand in Tanzania. The company was, however, facing an additional challenge in the Tanzania market due to an increase in excise duty. EABL's sales across product portfolios and regions were sluggish with beer sales rising 11 per cent and spirits at 9 per cent. Kenya led with beer sales up 12 per cent while Uganda grew only by three per cent. International business expanded 28 per cent due to Sh 4.3 billion expansion of the Kenyan operations meant for exports market. Ends Safaricom denies role in counting delaySHARE THIS STORYUpdated Thursday, March 07 2013 at 01:42 GMT+3 By GEOFFREY MOSOKU Safaricom now says it is not responsible for the systems failure that saw the electronic voter tallying collapse on Monday night. The mobile operator through a statement said their role in the results transmission was only limited to providing their network but not the software that was used to transmit the results. Safaricomâs role is simply to provide connectivity between the mobile devices and the IEBC tallying centers. Safaricom did not and does not have any role in the technical design, management or specification of the servers, the mobile software application nor the graphic presentation of the results data used by the IEBC,â CEO Bob Collymore said. He explained that Safaricom was one of several service providers contracted by the IEBC to provide network connectivity for the electronic transmission of electoral results. âIn accordance with the terms of our contract with the IEBC, Safaricomâs responsibilities were twofold, the first was to provide the virtual private network (VPN) for the conveyance of the results from polling stations across the country previously identified as having sufficient mobile coverage to the IEBCâs constituency, county and national tallying center infrastructure. The Safaricom boss said the second was to deliver 17,900 original manufacturer warranted handsets to the IEBC for use by polling staff for purposes of transmitting electronic results. Safaricom was neither involved in the supply of the software to be used on the mobile handsets nor the distribution and storage of the devices,â Collymore added. The mobile telecommunication firm said they were issuing the statement following numerous queries from the media and in response to public concern. Although IEBC has conceded that their system failed, the pollsâ body is yet to clarify on the nature of the failure of the system that cost taxpayers billions of shillings to procure. By yesterday, Kenyan were still left to speculate on the cause of the collapse with suspicions of hacking topping the list of would be reasons. Safaricom sought to clarify further their role saying the observed traffic on the VPN they provided did not exceed 3.5 Megabytes per second (Mbps) at any time. The Safaricom chief said the total number of mobile devices provisioned to be used by the IEBC polling staff to relay results on the Safaricom VPN were 32,000, which represents only 2 per cent of the 1.5 million devices connected to their data network at any given time. He said that they have provided unrestricted access to representatives of the 8 presidential candidates to assess and monitor its network performance. The Safaricom mobile and virtual private network has remained robust with 100 per cent uptime in all areas where coverage was to be provided. As a responsible corporate citizen, Safaricom appreciates and takes seriously its assigned responsibilities and will continue to play its part to support the IEBC in its duties,â Collymore added. On September 25, 2012 the Government of Canada through its contracting agency the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) entered into agreement with the Government of Kenya to supply a Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) system to register eligible voters and produce a clean and scrutinized voters list for the March 2013 Kenyan Elections. CCC, together with their subcontractor Morpho Canada supplied 15,000 BVR kits and a data processing centre IEBC. Through a government-to-government arrangement, the Government of Canada assisted the Government of Kenya to acquire a Biometric Voter Registration system that allowed the IEBC to register over 14.3 million voters. The final product included preparation of a voters list including photos. The IEBC placed a tender for an Electronic Voter Identification System (EVIS) which was to be used to biometrically identify voters on polling day which was awarded to South African firm, Face Technology. third project involved another IEBC tender for the provision of a system to electronically relay election results. This tender was awarded to Kenyan firm Next Technologies. Kimunya writes to 'thankless lot' Former transport minister Amos Kimunya during a road transport stakeholders meeting on November 12, 2012. NATION MEDIA GROUP By KINUTHIA MBURU kinuthiamburu@gmail.com and MUCHEMI WACHIRA mwachira@ke.nationmedia.com Posted Thursday, March 7 2013 at 00:30 In Summary
Transport minister Amos Kimunya lost to a newcomer and immediately wrote to his constituents accusing them of being unappreciative of his good work. Mr Kimunya, who has held the Kipipiri parliamentary seat for 10 years, was defeated by Nairobi lawyer Samuel Kamunye Gichigi. The minister was handed the TNA ticket after a controversial nomination. The results were not announced after Mr Gichigi complained of irregularities. The lawyer managed to secure an APK ticket to fight for the seat. He garnered 18,972 votes against Mr Kimunya's 16,689. In an unprecedented move, Mr Kimunya wrote to the people of Kipipiri accusing them of not appreciating his development record and left it with an official of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. Returning officer Acenia Njoroge read the letter to the people after announcing the results. The letter read in part: "I am very disappointed that the people of Kipipiri did not appreciate my development record." Mr Kimunya has been part of the key team in outgoing President Kibaki's regime having served as Finance minister during his first term. He quit the docket after Parliament accused him of misleading Kenyans on the sale of the Grand Regency Hotel. Mr Gichigi had campaigned for the minister in previous elections before the two fell out. The new MP said he cut ties with the minister after realising that he was not development oriented and was out of touch with the local people. "I supported him (Mr Kimunya) in 2007 because I wanted our constituency to retain the Finance docket. I hoped that with the docket, Mr Kimunya would be able to steer the development agenda. However, that never happened and today, 75 per cent of Kipipiri does not have access to piped water," said Mr Gichigi. Kenya election 2013: Voting around the country 4 March 2013 Last updated at 12:10 ET Kenya elections: Uhuru Kenyatta leads Raila Odinga The BBC's Sophie Ikenye reports from Nairobi, where every ballot paper is held aloft to try and ensure the election's transparency Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces trial at the ICC next month, has established a large lead over rival Raila Odinga in early results from Kenya's presidential poll. With results in from over 40% of polling stations, Mr Kenyatta has 53% of the vote, against 42% for Mr Odinga. The head of the electoral commission emphasised these were provisional figures and urged Kenyans to wait patiently for the final outcome. In 2007-8, more than 1,000 people were killed in post-election violence. Clashes broke out after Mr Odinga claimed he had been cheated of victory by supporters of President Mwai Kibaki. Mr Kenyatta denies charges at the the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he was instrumental in organising the 2007-8 bloodshed. Violence has also marred the current election, with at least 19 people killed on Monday - mainly in coastal attacks attributed to separatists. Continue reading the main story AnalysisIncreasing numbers of spoiled ballots have the two leading parties worried. The Coalition of Reforms and Democracy (Cord) - led by Raila Odinga, who is currently trailing in early results - wants the spoiled votes to be part of the final tally. If included, they could make the difference to whether a run-off is declared. But the Jubilee coalition, whose candidate Uhuru Kenyatta is currently leading, would prefer they were not included. The party quoted an official from a body promoting good governance - the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa - as saying there was no precedent in Kenya or internationally for invalid votes to be counted. Kenya's electoral laws classify a spoiled vote as a marked ballot placed in the wrong ballot box, a ballot that is marked twice or a ballot on which a mark goes beyond one candidate's box. Vincent Kimosop of Kenya's Institute of Legislative Affairs told the BBC the large number of spoiled votes was down to the fact that people had to mark six different ballots instead of the three used in the last election. On Tuesday, there were reports of a blast in Nairobi's predominantly Somali neighbourhood of Eastleigh. Few details about the blast were immediately available but the Kenyan Red Cross said one person had been taken to hospital. Officials and the media urged Kenyans to put their faith in the electoral process. The election was a "turning point" whose outcome would determine whether Kenya would move forward as a "civilised state", said a Daily Nation editorial. But some 330,000 spoiled ballots have been counted so far, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) noted with concern - well over double the number of votes cast for the third-placed candidate, Musailia Mudavadi, who trailed far behind with just over 148,000 votes, or 3%. Some put this down to confusion, with voters having six ballots papers to complete, while some observers note that officials have tightened their rules on what constitutes a spoiled paper. Late on Tuesday, the election commission chairman announced that the spoiled ballots would count in the overall vote total, the Associated Press reports, increasingly the likelihood of a run-off between the top two candidates. Kenyans also voted for members of parliament and senators, county governors and members of the 47 newly formed county assemblies. Call for patience With 42% of polling stations reporting at 21:00 Nairobi time (18:00 GMT), the 51-year-old deputy prime minister had 2.8m votes, while the 68-year-old prime minister had 2.2m, said the website of the IEBC. None of the other five candidates for the presidency had more than 1%. The IEBC has said that the release of results has been slowed down by problems with their computer systems. It said provisional results may not be tallied until Wednesday, meaning an official declaration will come then at the earliest. "Nobody should celebrate, nobody should complain," Mr Hassan told journalists. "We therefore continue to appeal for patience from the public." To win outright, a candidate must get 50% of votes cast plus one vote, as well as at least 25% of votes in half of Kenya's 47 counties. If no-one achieves that, the vote will go to a run-off, probably on 11 April. Meanwhile, in the parliamentary vote, marathon runner Wesley Korir has won a seat representing the Rift Valley after standing as an independent candidate. Mr Korir won the Boston Marathon in April 2012 as well the Los Angeles Marathon in two consecutive years. In a news conference, IEBC chairman Issack Hassan called for people to "resist making early judgments about who has won", and said final results would not be released within 48 hours. He said candidates and parties were under obligation to "accept the results peacefully". There are fears the loser might not accept the official result, triggering an outburst of violence. Widespread failure of newly instituted electronic biometric voting registration (BVR) kits, reports of late voting at one polling station hours after polls closed officially, and an instance of a poll clerk issuing multiple ballots have all already been cited by Mr Odinga's party as cause for concern. Continue reading the main story Raila Odinga vs Uhuru Kenyatta Uhuru Kenyatta
Raila Odinga
"These we find to be placing in jeopardy the credibility of this process," said Frank Bett from Mr Odinga's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord). Later, Mr Odinga's running mate Kalonzo Musyoka said the party had written to the IEBC about the number of spoiled ballots and the failure of the BVR machines, which he said had opened the door to possible fraud. "We are worried on both counts," he said - adding that the failure of the BVR machines was particularly disappointing given that Kenya had spent 7bn shillings (£54m; $82m) on them. Both leading candidates have pledged to respect the result of a free and fair vote. 'Consequences' Mr Kenyatta, who heads the Jubilee alliance, is due to stand trial in April at the ICC for his alleged role in the 2007 unrest, when clashes between rival supporters degenerated into targeted attacks on members of ethnic groups linked to one or other candidate. Mr Odinga later joined a government of national unity under a peace deal. The US and other Western allies of Kenya have warned of possible "consequences" if Mr Kenyatta wins. However, Mr Kenyatta's running mate, William Ruto, who also faces charges of crimes against humanity, insisted on Monday that they would be able to discharge their duties if elected and would co-operate with the ICC to clear their names. Both deny any wrongdoing. Lines of voters stretched outside polling stations across the country on Monday and many polling stations stayed open late into the night. Turnout was estimated at 70%. Four policemen were among the 19 killed in election-day violence mainly blamed on the separatist Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), which had demanded the elections be scrapped. Gunfire and explosions were also reported in the town of Garissa, near the border with Somalia. Gunmen stormed two polling stations after voting ended, but were forced to retreat by security forces, the deputy speaker of parliament told Associated Press. Please note: NARC 2002 MoUs showed us that Kenyan politicians can sign anything for power. The presidency is worth the sacrifice, and certainly declaring loyalty to Uhuru in exchange for support of TNA and its appendages like the "Mbas" would be worth the sacrifice by many power thirsty politicians. Kenya: Candidate calls for halt to tallying effortBy | Associated Press – 47 mins ago
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